Spring and warmer months happen to be their favorite season when worker ants come out of their underground hibernation, and ...

There’s a pretty, little flower with yellow petals and heart-shaped leaves that grows in thick mats across the forest floor in parts of Michigan. The lesser celandine, also known as fig buttercup, is ...

Discover how a wasp that doesn't sting and is the size of a sesame seed does grave damage to the invasive stinkbug.

Parenting can keep you on your toes all day. But if you find it so physically and mentally draining you can't enjoy family ...

Kenya's flower industry is being ravaged by pests, leading some flower farmers to rely more heavily on toxic pesticides ...

Options include naming a feral cat after your old flame before it’s neutered — or giving rodents or cockroaches your love bug’s name before feeding them to bigger animals. The Minnesota Zoo’s campaign ...

The anthocyanin supports pollen germination and growth by acting as an antioxidant, scavenging reactive oxygen species that might otherwise result in sun damage, scientists found.

More young birder groups are popping up across the country for teens and tweens who enjoy getting outdoors together to gawk ...

Centuries before the now-banned red dye No. 3 was synthesized in a lab, humans turned to insects to bring a little scarlet, vermillion or burgundy into their foods, fabrics and ...

Have you ever heard of cochineal? And I am not referring to the upscale restaurant in Marfa, Texas, but to the small, scale insect native to our area. This insect lives on nopal, prickly pear, Opuntia ...